Clothes-washer.



M. J. & E. W. BEENEY. CLOTHES WASHER APPLICATION FILED APR. B, 1918.

1,093,101. I Q Patented Apr. 14, 1914.

5 Mod 71?. mae m rmvrrnn s'raarEs rarENr ormon MAURICE J. BEENEY ANDERNEST w. :BEENEY, or NEWARK, onro, ASSIGNORS T0 1-1. E. WENDELL, 0ELEIrsIo, OHIG.

CLOTHES-WASHER.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that we, MAURIGE J. BEENEY andERNEST W. BEENEY, citizens of the United States, residing at Newark, inthe county of Licking and State of Ohio, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Clothes-Vashers, of which the fol lowing is aspecification.

This invention relates to laundry devices of the class wherein thecleansing operation is produced by the reciprocation of a hollow conicalmember having a novel arrangement of the interior parts, and whereby analternating suction and compression is produced by moving the devicevertically in contact with the clothes immersed in a cleansing liquid,and has for one of its objects to sunplify and improve the constructionand increase the eiiiciency and utility of devices of this character.

lVith these and other objects in view the invention consists in certainnovel features of construction as hereinafter shown and described andthen specifically pointed out in the claim, and in the drawingsillustrative of the preferred embodiment of the invention, Figure 1 is asectional elevation of the improved device. Fig. 2 is a bottom planview. Fig. 3 is a detail in section on the line 33 of Fig. 1.

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the followingdescription and indicated in all the views of the drawings by the samereference characters.

The body of the improved device is constructed of sheet metal of anysuitable quality, such as copper, aluminum, tin, or the like, andcomprises a conical shell 10 having an interior socket 11 to receive anoperating handle 12. The socket 11 extends only part way through theconical shell 10, and at the lower end of the socket the shell isprovided with a transverse diaphragm 15, preferably slightly curveddownwardly, as shown, and provided with a plurality of apertures 16, andforming an upper conical internal chamber 17. Depending from thediaphragm 15 is another conical member 18 which forms an innerdownwardly opening conical chamber 19. Depending from the diaphragm 15is still another and inverted conical member 20 which surrounds theconical member 18 and is united thereto at the lower end at 21 and formsan intermediate closed conical chamber 22. The conical member 18 is pro-Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed April 8, 1913.

Patented Apr. 14, 1914. Serial No. 759,815.

vided with a plurality of apertures 23, while the conical member 20 isprovided with a plurality of similar apertures 24. The conical member 20forms an outer annular chamber 25, and the apertures 2324e providecommunication respectively between the chambers 19 and and 22, while asbefore stated the apertures 16 provide communica tion between thechambers 22 and 17. Formed in the shell 10 near its upper end are aplurality of transverse openings 26. The socket 11 extends for adistance above the upper line of the shell 10, and connected to thissocket and likewise connected to the shell 10 are a plurality ofdeflectors or hoods 27, one extending over each of the apertures 26.

Any required number of the apertures 16, 23 and21 may be employed, butgenerally three will be sufficient as shown. Any re quired number of theapertures 26 and their respective hoods 27 may likewise be employed, butgenerally three will be sufiicient as shown.

The shell 10 may be of any required size,

about 7 inches long, but these dimensions may be varied as required, andit is not desired therefore to limit the invention to any particularsize or to any particular propor- With a device thus constructed, theoperation is as follows: The garments to be cleansed are deposited in asuitable receptacle, such as a wash tub, and quantity of water,preferably soft, and supplied with the requisite soap or like compound,is heated to the boiling point and poured upon the garments in the tubbut with not suiiicient water to cause the garments to float in thewater. The improved implement is. then disposed upon the garments in thetub and alternately moved downwardly and drawn upwardly by the handle 12and also moved laterally from place to place in the tub to cause thecleansing action to operate upon all of the garments. As the implementis moved downwardly the air, steam and water rise into the downwardlyopening chambers and are caused to rush upwardly through the apertures23-241 into the chamber 22 and thence through the apertures 16 into thechamber 17 and thence out through the apertures 26 and against thedeflectors and thrown downwardly thereby upon the garments. When theimproved device is drawn upwardly the action is reversed, the upwardmovement causing a suction which draws the liquid upwardly through thegarments. Thus the downward movement produces a rapid movement of thecleansing liquid downwardly through the garments, While the upward orsuction movement causes an upward movement of the water through thegarments, and thus entirely removes the dirt therefrom, and by repeatingthis action rapidly and moving the implement dyer laterally to bring itinto contact with the entire surface of the garments, the latter arethoroughly cleansed as will be obvious. \Vhen the device is moveddownwardly the water rises to a point inside of the conical chamber andabove the upper edge of the holes 26 and thus confines the air which isin the spaceabove the holes 26, and as the downward movement of thedevice continues the air thus confined is compressed thereby andutilized to force the cleansing liquid downwardly through the garments.The downward movement of the implement causes the water to be forced intwo directions and as the device is then drawn upwardly a suction isproduced which pulls the water upwardly from the bottom through theclothes, as before described. By the peculiar arrangement of the partsthe splashing" and throwing of the water from the tub or otherreceptacle is eliminated as the relatively large area of the holespermits the water to move through the de vice and out through the top.

In operating the device it is not necessary to draw the implemententirely out of the water as the improved device operates as soon as theimplement is raised high enough to cause the waterline in the tub orother receptacle to come below the holes, which thus control themovements of the'air, the air entering through the holes at the top andpassing down through the upper chamber and into the concentric chambers25--l9 at the bottom. This arrangement causes the device to act quicklyand materially increases the cleansing action and the utility of theaction of the cleansing liquid on the garments. The members 18 and 20are provided with drainage openings 28 at the junctures 21, as shown.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is:

A downwardly opening conical shell having transverse openings near itsapex, an intermediate: transverse substantially horizontal battle memberwithin the shell, and a hollow member depending from the baffle memberand converging toward its lower end whereby an outer annular chamber andan inner chamber are formed with clownwardly diverging sides, saidbaffle member having a plurality of openings communicating with theinterior of the annular member and the annular member having a pluralityof openings communicating with the chamher.

In testimony whereof we aflix our signatures in presence of twowitnesses.

Witnesses:

JosEPH W. HoRNER, E. H. REYNOLDS.

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